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So time to determine where your surviving organisms will live from this point forward. You may have to use the previous thread to identify organism so here's the link to that. >>481190

It's a pretty simple roll and it's based pretty much on the latest map posted above. and will be based on a 1d6 roll. Plants have already been rolled for so just animals here.

1 = Region 1
2 = Region 2
3 = Region 3
4 = Region 4
5 = Global
6 = Your choice.

Have fun, and I'll see everyone in couple hours.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>503416
rolling for Mulophyte

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>503416

>>491295
Rolling for Muloctail

>>503439
And the squid-lizard world domination begins

Rolled 6, 1 = 7 (2d6)

Rolling for Toothy Broulder and Snorkeling Broulder.

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>>503425
pic for reference
>>503439
Noice, Mulocs will rule this era

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>>503447
Nah mate, I got a 6 for the Toothy Broulder, so they're gonna be global. And the Snorkelling Broulders will be in Region 1.

Rolled 6, 1, 5, 2, 5 = 19 (5d6)

>>503385

>>>481598 proto dolpheesh
>>>482025 steadfeesh
>>>487776 sproutling
>>>487818 inland frondly
>>>483501 basic frondly

rolling for phytoforms, not sure if those were included in the 'plant' roll

Rolled 5, 1, 5, 1 = 12 (4d6)

>>503385
>>503471

Sproutling are global, and proto dolpheesh are region 1.

>>488918 wading braf
>>489583 mulophyte
>>494117 nettlemuncher
>>482698 tanglecrawler

Rolled 6 (1d6)

>>503385

finally, because there are 5 variants, 5 rolls for the jewol
>>487667 jewol
(amethyst, sapphire, ruby, emerald, citrine in order)

Rolled 2, 2, 1, 5 = 10 (4d6)

>>503479
definitely forgot to put 5d6 so here are the other 4 rolls

>>503416

Rolling for whatever

>>489083 (Landlord Tripod)
>>486214 (Bull Tripod)
>>494445 (Bubblecrawler)
>>487236 (River Deral)
>>487236 (Surderal)


OP, didn't >>483566 survive? It's not on the phylogeny chart but it did get an 8 when you rolled.

Rolled 6, 6, 4, 3, 1 = 20 (5d6)

>>503540

Dammit, forgot to roll. Just to be clear I'll post them again.

>>489083 (Landlord Tripod)
>>486214 (Bull Tripod)
>>494445 (Bubblecrawler)
>>487236 (River Deral)
>>487236 (Surderal)

>>503546

6's for the Landlord and Bull Tripods.

Landlord Tripods are found in Region 3 and Region 4. Bull Tripods are global (on braffberg colonies).

>>503546
Bubblecrawlers are an odd one. They need to be wherever bubble algae are.
And Surdurals need to be with Braffbergs.

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Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>503416
Rolling for these things

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>>504322
This group of mulu, now known as malau, developed a harder exterior, including sharp points to deter predators that once targeted their hinds and at the tips of their tentacles to allow them to better manipulate their food. It also enables them to retain moisture more effectively. They have also grown significantly over time to on average 7 cm.
These mulu generally wait by shores while waves roll over them, moving slowly with the tide, stabbing vulnerable life as it passes by and feeding on it.

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>>504363 (You)
Forgot to mention that that was gen 1.
Gen 2.
The mulu begin to develop flatter, more muscular appendages that allow them to respond to quicker tide changes and venture further out from water. They also aggregate a toxin in their hind areas and their sharp tendrils, allowing them to stun what they stab.

>>504363
>stabbing vulnerable life as it passes by
*Penetrating

Lovely looking penis-squid

Rolled 1, 5, 1, 5, 3 = 15 (5d6)

Before it's too late, rolling for some forgotten bad boys

>>491065 (Grabraf)
>>500456 (the Brafemoth)
>>481716 (The Braffimat)
>>489163 (The Shellbraf)
>>484297 (Trident Shellbraf)

I hope this is still alright and I haven't missed anything.

Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d6)

>>504408
Parabzol and Buizol

(Skyzol can be considered global with the Sproutlings)

The full regional listings as per rolls are:

>Region 1
Proto Dolpheesh
Steadfeesh
Braffimat
Grabraf
Emerald Jewols
Snorkling Broulder
Tanglecrawler
Surderal
Mulophyte (basic)

>Region 2
Inland Frondly
Ruby Jewols
Sapphire Jewols
Buizol

>Region 3
Trident Shellbraf
Parabzol
Landlord Tripods
River Deral
Mulophyte (algae-immune)

>Region 4
Landlord Tripods
Bubblecrawlers

>Global
Basic Frondly
Sproutling (& Skyzol, package deal)
Shellbraf
Brafhemoth
Citrine Jewols
Wading Braf
Toothy Broulder
Amethyst Jewols
Bull Tripods
Nettlemuncher
Muloctail
Egg Mulu

>>504425
Librarian mentioned he was going to post some regional descriptions of some of the areas before we start evolving, to probably give us some things to react to and adapt around in regional variants.

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Here is the map with names we devised for reference. Posting for Librarian approval and/or future use/reference.

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Need to sleep, so I'll post some evolutions ahead of time.

Descending from the Muloctails who now live on the barren lands in region 3, and who survived in the harshest areas during extinction event, the Ferocitail is the meanest salad-eater around. It has evolved a reinforced head plate, which it uses to charge head-on into anything that moves. Not even other Ferocitails are safe from their kin, the only exception being the mating season.
The concussive and crushing impact of its charge is deadly to most foes its size or smaller, but seeing how small it is it basically harmless to any lifeform that is somewhat larger than it.

The Pattern that covers its skin has become darker, more closely matching the volcanic rock of the place that it inhabits. (Or because it looks cooler, if the description of the land turns out not to match.)

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>>504621
Some of the Muloctails that were situated in region 1 found much success in feeding primarily on the grass of the plains and the low vegetation of the forests that is now so abundant. Because of this they’ve become slightly larger, their legs have become shorter; getting them closer to the ground, and their heads have become more elongated. These changes have come at the cost of significantly lowered mobility.

These Muloctails are now known are Mulocrocs.

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>>504631
Many Muloctails all around Essari develop bigger “cheek”-pouches and a gland situated underneath their back plates. By leaving some of the vegetation that has been eaten in the mouth storage, the Muloctail lets it ferment, generating methane gas. This methane is then captured and stored under high pressure inside of the gland underneath the back plates (the plates act as reinforcements to the gland). The Muloctail can then release the methane into its enlarged cheek-pouches, making it “lighter” and allowing it to jump higher and also fall slower. This Muloctail is also significantly smaller than its ancestor, lowering its weight and making it more fit for living on the Broulder.

Because of this new ability these Muloctails, now called Pouchytails, have found a safe haven on the backs of Broulders. They spend their days scavenging for plants on the ground, jumping onto the Broulder whenever they feel threatened or need to rest. This new relationship is also in the Broulders’ benefit since the Pouchytails eat any unwanted weed that might grow on the giants.

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>>504631
Due to a mutation some Mulocrocs have completely lost their limbs. These Mulocrocs have found much success along rivers, marshes and other wetlands. They still feed on grass and its ilk, but they’ve also come to eat other plants that wash up from the seas and along the riverbanks. The youths look identical to a legless Mulocroc, but the older it gets the longer it also gets as it adds plates to its back. This Mulocroc line is now called Muloctsnejk.

Rolled 6, 2 = 8 (2d6)

>>504408
>>504417
forgot the knifefeesh and trapfeesh

>>504435
I am and I shall.

So let's start with Region 1. This particular region is blessed with a mediterranean and tropical climate, that keeps the area humid, but relatively pleasant year round. This region consists of the braffbergs Gemini and Styrax, the landmasses Brouldia, Jobani, Morove, Ralia, and the Shatturne Isles. Brouldia and Jobani share an expansive coral reefs that help to nurture young aqauatic organisms, and provides shelter for most marine organisms. Inland, the fields of bristlegrass and braffious trees stretch across the landmasses. It is here where deposits of Calcium, Magnesium and Iron dot the landscape. Morove is less tropical than the more equatorial landmasses, but is much wetter with a large forest covering half the landmass. Here, life has found the cooler climate to be manageable enough to adapt to. Ralia is a cragged landscape, with only expanses of grasslands throughout the landmass and a kelp forest surrounding its coast. This region cooler temperatures are accompanied by deposits of salt, copper, and iron ore that jut out from the surface.

Region two is home to the largest braffberg colonies, the landmass Sujardin, and the volcanic island known as Denui. These two braffberg colonies have moved southward along the Southern Tropic line, which is considered to be the optimal place for the growth and sustaining the sessile colonies, and the organisms that rely on it. These braffbergs have become so large now that they even have their own localized weather systems. Sujardin is a predominantly temperate climate and is the only landmass that experiences earth-like seasons year-round, including the first instances of snowfall. This region has a mixing of resources deposits including, iron, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and sulfur, and has its own kelp forests and coral reefs that also have deposits of magnesium, iron, and calcium among them. Then there's the island of Denui, an active volcanic island that has only recent become hospitable in its northern region for life. In spite of this only grasses have begun growing on the island because of a mysterious tar-like substance that may potentially be useful to an organism. This tar-like substance is also found in the southern crags of Sujardin.

Region 3 is home to Essari's largest landmass now known as Panoram and the northern Nihiloram Islands. This region has a predominantly wet tropical climate that has large swathes of land that have yet to be populated by inland organisms. While Panoram is not abundant with unique resources with only a few deposits of sulfur and calcium, the landmass is fertile and brimming with lush wetlands, forests, and grasslands, as well as multiple rivers and lakes. Likewise, the warm tropical waters around the great landmass is a comfortable home for any organisms big or small. Panoram also features some of the first expanses of mountains, a geographic marker only seen on this continent and the continent of Foltania. In the Northwest, the islands of Nihiloram is the only temperate climate found in Region 3. In spite of this, the wet climate of the region leaves much of the land with vast fields of Bristlegrass, and vibrant kelp forests around the coast.

Region 4 has a mix of the wet and dry tropical climate throughout the region, and is home to the continent Foltania, and the Torray Isles. In Foltania, its one defining feature is the beautiful Trifolt Delta, a massive expanse of wetland that stretches across most of western Foltania. This wet climate expands to the forests found near the coasts of Foltania, and a small wetland in the northwestern part of the continent. Torwards the center though, the climate becomes drier due to its young mountain range, leaving Foltania with large swathes of dry plains with hardy grasses that have begun to adapt to the hot climate. In the seas around Foltania, many marine organisms that reside in reefs are fortunate to be protected from the fury of the Essari's oceanborn storms and are able to flourish because of this. On both land and sea, organisms will find deposits of Calcium, Iron, Copper, and Zinc. The Torray Islands are relatively new to terrestrial life, and have predominantly hosted life around its shores that are warmed by hydrothermal vents near the islands, and warm ocean current that passes adjacent to it. It's kelp forests and coral reefs have nurtured life old and new, and are abundant with Calcium, Iron, and Magnesium deposits. On land, the forests that have begun appearing, have unearthed a strange resource that was left untouched for a long time: Crystals. These crystals scattered across the Torray Islands have been recently found to be nurturing the plant life on the island, increasing their overall productivity. Who knows what effect it'll have on an animal.

Hey... before I begin evolving.
Any changes to size max.?

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Across the world, wading braf have been spending more and more time in the shallows and on the shore. With the changing landscapes around Essari, they have begun to lose their fins in favor of short articulated limbs to help them waddle about in the muck, relying on their own body heat to stay warm in the cooler climates. The increased iron they passively get in their diet from the kelp forests enriches their blood, allowing them to store more oxygen in their blood at any given time, allowing them to be less reliant on their gills as they transition to breathing air.

REGION(s): 1, 2, 4

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>>506003
Around Sujardin, the periods of wintry weather have caused some brafs to burrow, developing stronger forelimbs to help displace topsoil. By digging into the ground, they maintain their heat against temperature extremes, and find that they can feast upon the roots of trees and grass without fear of predation. They are relatively small, but grow quicker, especially in their tunnels. Their eyesight suffers as they rely on it less, instead developing an advanced vibrational awareness that is especially sensitive in their fins and mandibles. Their internal structures begin to calcify, making them stronger and sturdier to survive accidental cave-ins and help them push past frozen patches of soil. Their tunnels can sometimes cause tiny cave-ins, shaping small portions of the land on accident.

REGION: 2

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>>506003
In the expansive wetlands of Foltania, some brafs find even less use for their limbs at all, and they gradually reposition into a radial form that propels them forward through water, mud and other obstacles. Growing smaller to easily slip through anything in their way, their bodies streamline, making them more sinuous and shortening their mandibles. They feed on detritus and debris in the wetlands, helping decompose plant matter and carrion and excreting it in a form that is actually easier for other plants and phytoforms to process and absorb. Feeding into their ecosystem from the bottom up, they too begin to tunnel, displacing soil around their bodies in a worm-like fashion as they dig among the fallen leaves and loam for nutrients.

>>506044
REGION: 4 woops sorry

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REGION: All / Floating / Skyzol biome

Sproutling have remained largely static for a while due to having no natural predators - but the climactic event that wiped 80% of life off the face of the planet has lit a fire under their tails. Literally.

Already able to communicate with one another via their tendril network, Sproutling also begin to develop a system of chemical pheromones that they use to communicate with other skyzol-bound communities. Caught up in the windstream, they can position their skyzols to alert down-wind Sproutlings of dangers or particularly rich feeding grounds, forming a loose social connection that spreads across Essari. They coordinate the trading of individual Sproutling to encourage diversity in pollination, and the increased exposure to various new minerals jump-starts their neural potential again.

Most Sproutling strains begin to play with one another (and their Skyzol) via their tendril network. They discover song this way, singing not aloud but directly into the neural pathways of other Sproutling, to entertain themselves.

They often direct their skyzol to drift near bubble algae hosting bubblecrawlers, giving the creatures a ride to bigger and richer colonies.

--World Event--
Life has just beginning to make concerted recovery from the great volcanic event a few million years ago on Essari. The world has emerged into the Magnarovic Era once more as a semi-tropical sanctuary for life to flourish. While animals took some time to recover, plants immediately picked up where they left off, soaking up the sun and absorbing toxics gases from the atmosphere, while simultaneously pumping Oxygen into the atmosphere. In the arctic circles of the Essari, has begun seeing the development of ice floes and the first icebergs, which will gradually develop into the planet's ice caps.

Many recent generations of organisms have experienced a radical changes in their offspring's anatomy. In some aquatic and terrestrial organisms, a notochord has appeared, providing these organisms with a rigidity and a stronger internal bodies. These organisms will soon become the worlds first vertebrates. For aquatic organisms, some have experienced an internal change to their bodies, as the beginnings of a primitive circulatory systems for improved blood flow and/or primitive nephric ducts (protokidneys) that help gather toxins and later excrete them. Finally, in a select few organisms, there has been a recent development of nerve bundles in the cranial region of organisms. These nerve bundles have in recent generations developed into the first brain stem.

All these changes to the world come with the addition of an abundance of exposed resources that are crucial to the further advancement of life. This new era on planet Essari will finally open the floodgates for life to truly get big and complex.

--Organism Impact--
> Organisms can now become as large as the size 12 increment stated in my OP post. (See Below)
> All resources that were mentioned in these two posts >>505921 >>505924 are available for the duration of the period.
> The following organisms now have notochords/primitive skeletal structure
- Landlord Tripod
- Grabraf
- Tanglecrawler
- River Deral
- Surderal
- All Broulders
- Bull Tripod
- Wading Braf
- Brafhemoth
- Muloctail
> The following organisms now have primitive circulatory/excretory systems
- Brafhemoth
- All Jewols
- Wading Braf
- Egg Mulu
- Shellbraf
- All Mulophytes
- Trident Shellbraf
- River Deral
- Surderal
> The following organisms now the have a primitive brain stem.
- Wading Braf
- All Shellbrafs
- Grabraf
- Nettlemuncher
- Bubblecrawlers
- Landlord Tripod
- Bull Tripod
- All Broulders
- Buizol
- Muloctail

--Planet Statistics--
Atmosphere: 74% Nitrogen, 7% Argon, 13% Oxygen, 2% Carbon Dioxide, 1% Hydrogen Sulfide, 3% Other Gases
Moons: 2
Tidal Forces: Present; Regular
Currents: Present; Earth-like, Warm-Cool
Average Global Temperature: 77°F (25°C)
Tectonics: Active
Volcanic Activity: Below Average
Weather Systems: Globally Subtropical
R1 - Mediterranean/Subtropical
R2 - Wet Temperate
R3 - Wet Tropical
R4 - Varies between Wet and Dry Subtropical

>>506095
...can you uh... repost the size increment thingy in this thread.

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>>506101

'''Size increments'''
• Size 1: Sugar Ant (0.1 - 1 cm)
• Size 2: Bumblebee (1.01 - 2.5 cm)
• Size 3: Mosquitofish (2.5 - 5 cm)
• Size 4: Poison Dart Frog (5 - 10 cm)
• Size 5: Giant Water Bug (11 - 20 cm)
• Size 6: Birdwing Butterfly (21 - 35 cm)
• Size 7: Horseshoe Crab (35 - 70 cm)
• Size 8: Australian Trumpet Snail (71 - 100 cm)
• Size 9: Japanese Giant Salamander (100 - 150 cm)
• Size 10: Aldabra Giant Tortoise (150 - 200 cm)
• Size 11: Leatherback Sea Turtle (2.01 - 2.5 m)
• Size 12: Mekong Giant Catfish (2.5 - 3 m)
• Size 13: Giant Pacific Octopus (3 - 4 m)
• Size 14: Ocean Sunfish (4.1 - 4.6 m)
• Size 15: Tiger Shark (4.6 - 5.2 m)
• Size 16: White Sturgeon (5.2 - 5.8 m)
• Size 17: African Elephant (5.8 - 6.5 m)
• Size 18: Great White Shark (6.5 - 8 m)
• Size 19: Manta Ray (8.1 - 9 m)
• Size 20: Porites Coral Reef Colony (9 - 10.5 m)
• Size 21: Whale Shark (10.5 - 12 m)
• Size 22: Gigantosaurus (12 - 16 m)
• Size 23: Blue Whale (16.1 - 22 m)
• Size 24: Brachiosaurus (22.1 - 30 m)
• Size 25: Smaug, The Desolater (30m+)

Now before I go to bed, I'm going to introduce our two new base organisms. The Hawa, and The Skelper

The Hawa spawned as a result of a genetic mutation in algefeesh embryos. They owe their survival to the surplus of dead bodies that they scavenged from the oceans during the last extinction event. This population currently resides in large schools around coral reefs of Essari being unable to survive in open ocean or in freshwater as of yet.

Hawa are fast omnivorous creatures, that move along the water currents using a wispy fin-like filaments that is move by a powerful notochord in their body.

The Skelper is a unique little oddity that also spawned near the end of the Triumphic Era. Like the Hawa, it owes its survival through the extinction to both it being a bottom dweller that avoided most of the destruction of the mass extinction, and a broad diet that allowed it to eat just about anything. Their populations currently are found in the open ocean floors, moving in small groups in search of food living or otherwise.

Skelpers are a speckled omnivore that travels across the ocean floor on six little nubs that pull it across the substrate. It has two mouths position on both sides of its body to eat with.

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A new strain of Bubble Algae diverges from the second generation. The hair-like structures for gathering dew grow thick, into a hemispherical coating of porous fluff. When the morning dew gathers, or the plant colonies pass through fog or a cloud, they soak up the water for later use.

>>506149
Forgot to say that this strain of bubble algae is known as the Fluff Bubble for now.

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>>506091
>>506091
REGION: All / Floating

The increased control of Sproutlings over their Skyzol hosts - and their habit of guiding the floating behemoths into rich feeding grounds and large bubble-algae colonies - boosts the growth of the floating herbivores as they are suddenly exposed to richer and larger sources of food.

With this increased size comes an increased complexity, as what was once an interior filled only with gas-bladders and a primitive digestive system evolves into a much more complex circulatory and digestive system, with the Sproutling's tendril network merging with the beginning of a primitive neural network.

The Skyzol begin to sing back to their Sproutlings.

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It's rough but here's a Regional Phylogeny Chart of all the starting organisms. I'll make an edition with the new animals tomorrow.

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The arm flaps of the bubblecrawler extend, allowing for better directional control while freefalling from bubble to bubble, along with the shape of their abdomen flaps.

As the bubbles got fluffier, having rougher textured feet proved more valuable than before. Eventually the texturing becomes minuscule hooks that catch onto the fluff, allowing the bubblecrawlers to easily hang from the bottoms of the plants

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>>506227
The Mulophytes in Region 4 grow larger and develop better eyes, to increase there depths perception.

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>>503385
The tripods have survived. From the Bull Tripod emerge two larger and more capable creatures.

They live in the slightly colder climates of the planet. The Yeti Tripod has evolved hair and a pack disposition.

The Greasy Tripod is a solitary predator, able to grow up to twice the size of the yeti. It fastidiously grooms itself with oil secreted from glands near it's feet.

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>>506227
>>506095

On Panoram, there is a lack of landbased predators and the Landlord tripods there are unopposed when they have reached full size; they can grow to over a meter in width and almost a meter in height. They graze peacefully in small groups in both the forests and the grasslands, returning to the rivers to reproduce.

The grazing is aided by the development of a single, wide calcium "tooth" attached to the muscles on the bottom and on the top of their mouth holes, gaining calcium from the plants they eat, which has absorbed the mineral from the precious few deposits that exists on the continent. This calicum also strengthens their notochords, which consists of a special form of cartilage, which allows them to grow taller and wider.

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>>506227
>>506095

The cousin of the Panoramian Landlord >>506449 becomes known as the Foltanian Landlord and develops a beak of hardend calcium, making grazer easier. They also become shorter than their cousin and gain a darker skin pigment, making it easier to hide and to blend into the vegetation, increasing their survival against predators.

And I fucked up, of course Panoram has the Muloctail predators among others.

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>>506227

Some Parabzols attatch themselves to the Panoramian Landlords whenever the big grazers reach the water. Among those that do, most die as they leave the water. But some manages to adapt to a slightly drier life; they attatch themselves to inside the rim of the Landlord sperm chute/egg canal where it is moist enough for them to surive. The Panoramian Parabzolpods attach themselves when the Landlords enters the water to mate/drink, feed and drops back into the water to reproduce whenever the Landlords return to a water source. Massive clusters of these Parabzolpods can form that sometimes clogs up the entire chute. Thankfully for the Landlords, the force in which they shoot out their eggs/sperm is often enough to dislodge them.

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>>503385
The Scorpion Braf has evolved to become even larger than before. In addition, its shell and claws has grown thicker for further protection and to more easily crush prey respectively. Its harpoon-tail and spring have grown larger to be able to strike farther prey.

REGIONS: GLOBAL

>>506500

Aren't they only found in Region 3 and 4?

>>506505
Librarian says that was a mistake, and the roll for them was a 5.
>>504408

>>506506

Excellent and horrific.

>>506500
Oh, and it has evolved two eyes.

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>>506449
Some evolve better legs to run faster.
They can press with their tail leg and bounce with their front legs very quick on land.

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>>506484
They develope a shell that sustain water and stability. It even protects against the strong sunlight.

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REGION 1

In the grasslands of the west, ready access to sunlight along with the gentle, moist climate encourage the growth of the bristlegrass. It shoots up to 60cm in places, covering the land in swaths of gently-swaying stalks. Due to increased grazing on land, they adapt to grow most of their important structures at the very tip of their main stalk, including new structures that help them catch pollen to increase reproductive rates.

Though these proto-flowers are far from complete reproductive organs yet, their colourful petals vary by which part of the region they're from, growing more lavender and violet the further north they get. They are surrounded by nettle filaments to protect the flowers from becoming food.

Their root structures grow almost straight down now, allowing them to tap into hidden reserves of fresh water, and anchoring them in place against the stronger winds of the exposed grasslands.

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The stalks of Bristlegrass found in region 1 on Brouldia & Jobani have become wavy, making the plant cover more ground. At the same time its leaves & columns become smaller and more abundant. These changes has made it so the plants cover up more sunlight, making it harder for competing plants to find a breach.
This change also makes it harder for critters to travel through the grasslands without coming in contact with the plant, improving the plant’s ability to reproduce. This Bristlegrass is now known as Floorgrass.

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>>506536
Regional color variants

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brief glimpse of the future of Planet Essari

>>506563
Beautiful isn't it.

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For global starting organisms, I think it just means that they're initially found everywhere, but unless they're able to cross open ocean, their offspring cannot be.

Now to get extremely region focuses.
On a tiny island south of south of Torray, known now as Onolk, there are Landlords. Island gigantism came into play with this species, making them far larger than usual. To support this size, their exoskeleton becomes a little thicker. Remember, their ancestors were stated to have exoskeletons. Tripods are arthropods.

>>506572
Oops. Forgot how I spelled the island name while working on the creature side. Well, use whichever then, but keep it consistent after.

>>506572

>Remember, their ancestors were stated to have exoskeletons. Tripods are arthropods.

I was going with a hybrid alien system of both exoskeleton and primitive spine/notochord complementing eachother

>>506578
Oh, well, in this case, Onolk/Onalk landlords are more on the arthropod side of the spectrum compared to some others.

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Some of the Bristlegrass found on Panoram become more adapted to the wet climate, spreading out over its wetlands, coasts and lakes. The column changes to function like the nettles on its top, releasing pollen into the air instead of upon contact with animals.

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Not sure what landmass this would be, but here's a landscape.

Felt like experimenting with brushes in SAI

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>>504621
The Ferocitail has started eating minerals to improve its digesting. A side effect of this has been the addition of calcium in its diet. The calcium intake has started changing the Ferocitails internal chitinous skeleton, replacing much of it with bone. This has made the Ferocitails body capable of carrying more weight.

Its tail has developed a partly hollow club, made up of bone covered by the same chitinous material as its plates. The Ferocitail uses this club in a one-two combo where it charges its enemy, following it up with a blow from the tail-club.

Inside the tail there's two small and weak pieces of bone. When the tail is used for the first time these bones break off, rattling around inside the club. The ferocitail uses this rattle to warn other creatures that get to close.

>>506700

Beautiful!

>>506709
Looks like it's not linked yet in this thread.
Discord chat for serious discussion like which creature here is best girl Fluff Bubble is Cute! CUTE!!!
https://discord.gg/ffpvV

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>>504641
Because of a mutation that has sprung up amongst the Pouchytails, much of the population now has membranes between their legs and bodies. Giving them improved maneuverability while off the ground and also the ability to glide through the air.

The Pouchytails now also come in different colours, acting as a confusing element to possible predators

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>>506227

The Small Braffious Fruit Tree thrives in the soil of Panoram, growing fast and tall in the fertile soil. A mutation causes the stem to "split" in several places, creating branches from which more leaves (or whatever the green is) and fruit can grow. The bioluminescence of the fruits and on special "lightspots" on the trunk creates a dim ligthing even on dark nights in the forests of Panoram where this tree grows. Both the fruits and the leaves(?) are a good source of food for the herbivores.

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>>506500
The Scorpion Braf and its spring-like tail have grown larger. In addition, it has evolved similar gills to the lungfish, allowing it to walk on land.
REGIONS: GLOBAL

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>>506227

Some of the Braffious trees adapt to the wetlands of Panoram. They are thinner and shorter than their cousins, don't produce as much fruit and lack the bioluminescence on the trunk but their seeds are hardy enough to survive and take root in the wetlands of Essari. Due to this hardiness, some seeds manage to survive the dangers of the ocean and spread to Foltania and the Trifolt Delta.

(@Librarian, I hope this kind of spread is allowed. I didn't want the same tree to appear on all continents at the same time.)

>>506899
This is perfectly fine. Plants naturally have a lot of potential for genetic drift, not to mention the overall ability for plants to spread through multiple means. (Animals, Water, Air, etc)

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>>504707
After living next to wet areas for a while the Muloctsnejks become more adapted to living in the water. They develop a cool fin or flipper or something.

They can now also be found in the seas along the coasts, feeding on kelp and ambushing the steadfeesh and its relatives of region 1.

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Some algae have evolved protrusions to drift from other small creatures. Overtime, they grew sticky and thorny tendrils to attach to other creatures and feed on them via myzocytosis, and due to this form of energy making, they lost their photosynthesis in favor of hardened cells.

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>>507121
I recoginize that algea, you cheeky mong.

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>>506531
Their water-filled shells allow them to traverse deep inside the landlords, even as far as the brain. Those that do develop tendrils that allow hardwiring of the brain of the landlord, catering to their desires.

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>>507121
While the leather of the Segment Bzol somewhat protects it from parasitic algae, their sticky and thorny tendrils allow them to attach towards the leatherskin, granting the Bzol another layer of durability in exchange for the Algae given slightly better protection. If the tendrils are able to pierce the leathery skin, they also in exchange for feeding on the host give the energy gained from whatever photosynthesis cells they have.

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>>507190
The Panoramian Parabzolpod finds itself more often than not inside the brain of the Landlord, more and more of its life being spent inside. Overtime, they begin evolving legs with mind reworking tendrils, and their diet of blood slowly changes to a diet of flesh, evident by a changing of their mouths.

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>>504631
After having eaten the grass and bristlegrasses that are so abundant on the plains of Brouldia & Jobani the Mulocrocs' bodies have started to change. The plants of this area so rich with minerals have become enriched with it, indirectly adding it to the Mulocrocs diet. Because of this, calcium enriched plates have developed over the Mulocrocs' previous soft spots, thought still leaving the tip of the tail, feet and underside of the head exposed.

>>506850
After starting to have encounters with the now landbased Scorpion Braf the added protection has proven to not be enough. The ones who have survived carry a black pattern above their eyes. It seems this pattern is effective at scaring the Braf from coming closer.

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Some Mulu have evolved to become incredibly small, to the size of prokaryote. Those that do are are capable of packing DNA from the cells of animals and plants, and splice them into other DNA. This change rapidly spreads throughout the other cells, and can cause heavy mutations. It can also create new species, a mixture of two different animals/plants if enough genetic changes occur.

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>>507529
New limbs grow and old ones change, some become mouths, some become legs, some combine.

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>>507468
The Algae Bzol as a result of the Genetic Mulu, have grown massively larger than before. Their plate armor covers almost all of their entire body, and the Algae now has colorful markings and grows flowers which releases pheromones. Said pheromones attract prey closer to it. The flowers themselves are similar to a flytrap, in that they can quickly close, and the pouches inside the flower releases acids that slowly digest the caught prey. In addition, algae tentacles can retract out of the flowers, these tentacles are sticky and thorny to the touch, easily latching onto prey and bringing them towards the flowers. The leg-like algae forms allow the Bzol to move utilizing its muscles near the algae, although it takes considerable effort.

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>>506760
The Pouchytail's membranes continue to develop, now spanning between the front and rear legs. Its also tail becomes flatter near the tip, helping the Pouchytail maneuver while in the air. With these developments the Pouchytails now have the ability to fly, and they've set their sights on the sky.

The Flying Pouchytails now bring unholy war upon the Sproutlings, as packs of Pouchytails bunch up on solitary Sproutlings. They grab a hold with their mouths while also releasing the methane out of their cheeks, bringing the poor creature plummeting down with them. As soon as they reach peak velocity and come close enough to the ground they release the Sproutling, fold out their "wings" and reinflate their cheek pouches breaking their fall. The Sproutling who is not as fortunate crashes into the earth, the impact splattering it against ground.

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Growing adapted to the temperate climate of Sujardin, the Frondly growing there have undergone several bouts of selective evolution.

Where once they were growing stiff as their protective layer of bark advanced from their roots upward, Highland Frondly now sport segmented bark plates that overlap, allowing their stalk a full range of mobility that enables them to better defend themselves once more. Their fronds segment to preserve water while maximizing the photosynthesizing surface area, and each section of frond is fully articulated, with the Frondly able to control the flow of water to flex their softer elements. They lose their spiky protrusions around their base, with the bark serving the same purpose.

They are able to grow to incredible heights as they advance up the elevation of Sujardin from the lowland Braffous forests to the barren sides of its hills. The calcium, magnesium and sodium deposits enrich their growth and continue to support their active development.

Because of the new mixture of minerals and adaptations, their fruit grows harder, similar to a pear or apple in consistency. This allows their seeds to travel further when they're pollinated, store more nutrients for the resultant offspring, and denser fruit is also able to resist changes in temperature more easily.

Their color pales somewhat and darkens, increasing their ability to absorb not only light for photosynthesis but warmth from the sun in cooler seasons.

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On the Torray Isles, many Toothy Broulders consuming a diet full of crystals, begin to incorporate them into their rocky exteriors, large growths coming out of their backs and into their bodies. The energy collected from these crystals, in a process fairly similar to photosynthesis, is given to the Broulder, allowing further development. Most notably these broulders develop a harder skeleton, increased neurological development, and crystalline eyes. Furthermore, due to the energy collected by the crystals, the Crystalline Broulders no longer feel the need to rest during the day, allowing themselves to forage, scavenge, and hunt, without end.

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Due to not requiring energy, many Crystalline Broulders, lacking predators, simply laze about for their existence. As time goes on, they become fused to the ground by crystal, developing calcified tubes to drain nutrients from the ground below. During this process however, Genetic Mulu >>507595
entered the mix, mutating the creatures drastically. This has led to the development of a second brain within the organism, effectively making them conjoined identical twins. Thankfully, this has benefited them massively, as the second head can aid in defending a previously undefended flank. Furthermore, the forced companionship has allowed social development within the species, many Gemini Broulders learning how to work with one another within their pairing for the good of them both.

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And now begins the surdural explosion. Some info on the first creature is a recap of the species.

Ears of Surdurals, short for Surface Dural, move onto their heads, next to the two forebrains, which handle most of their sensory functions. Their skeletons also continue developing. Muscles become anchored to their spinal columns,
Their fins and mandibles are chitin based rather than bone, but do still anchor to the skeleton.
They feed on Braffbergs found throughout the region from below.
Males have elaborate patterns on their fins, which they flap in mating dances.
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From this species, two others get swept off in ocean currents, finding themselves in the nearest permanent Braffberg colonies: The Picses and Leviathan.

From the sheer abundance of food, one population becomes massive. Their mandibles become more suited for scraping and grinding at the bottom surface of Leviathan. Males of the species have even brighter fins than their ancestors.

The other species becomes lithe and flexible. While they feed on the massive braffbergs, they tunnel through the coloney, which provides them shelter from predator. Picses Surdural males begin to develop territorial behavior, and will defend the area around their dens from other males, nipping at invaders.

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Amethyst Jewols in the area surrounding Torray encounter enormous amounts of resources, causing a growth spurt within their subspecies. Averaging a meter in length, these enormous yet slow-moving creatures begin to drag themselves onto land, their wading fins giving way to stubby legs. They shift in colour to better blend in to the islands' vegetation, feasting not only on Braffious fruit but also on the stationary crystal outcroppings of certain Broulders.
>>508064
>>508215

Something has also changed within them, and their primitive nerve structures crystallizes, allowing them to process sensory information in an entirely new way.

Their shells grow somewhat thinner as they grow larger, making it easier for them to move when the water isn't supporting their weight. Something else seems to be changing within them, with some Tourmaline going dormant and remaining stationary for extended periods of time.

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>>507842
SYNTHESIS COMPLETE
NEW SPECIES FORMED: BZALGAE
The Bzalgae are far larger than their predecessors, becoming more than double their size. Due to the merging on the cellular level as a result of the Genetic Mulu, the muscles of the former Bzol and the plant matter of the algae are now fused, allowing absolute control over the tentacles and primitive legs. In addition, the Bzalgae are formed via eggs at the end of the Bzalgae.

The combination of the two species has also granted them a primitive brain stem, and it is not unusual to have several Bzalgae group up in colonies in the sea.

>>508360
In addition, the tentacles now secrete a more sticky mucus, allowing them to even more easily trap prey, and more colorful markings.

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>>506111
The Hawa have developed cells capable of sensing electrostatic currents, along with a sharper end fin to help move through water better and a horn to pierce prey with.

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>>508215
Many Gemini Broulders, still lacking any true predators tend to reproduce ontop of eachother, and as time goes on, they fuse via their calcified tubes, trunks, and crystal. These large hive-mind colonies of Broulders work together, collecting minerals from the ground below with huge networks of calcified tubing, and helping in the production of new crystals above. Furthermore, the outer Gemini Broulders have the tendency to catch anything that comes too close to their territory, sucking them up and digesting them in their many interconnected stomachs. These colonies vary, some are small mounds, while others develop into towering mountains.

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>>508313
Some of the Tourmaline begin to undergo a unique transition, a metamorphosis after remaining dormant inside their shells for a period of weeks. They emerge changed - with glittering, shimmering wings formed of tiny gem scales in every imaginable colour of quartz, and flutter around the isles of Torray long enough to reproduce.

Unfortunately, they haven't exactly perfected the art of metamorphosing, and they forgot that they need to be able to eat. Or need legs. Or, in fact, do anything besides flutter around, reproduce, and then promptly die.

Is there any aspiration higher than to die young and leave a pretty corpse? At that, the Tourmaline excels.

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>>508064
Gradually, the crystals of the Crystallized Broulder fully merge with the organism, and as time goes on, growth is less sporadic and more controlled, tending to grow as glittering scales on their back to deter hitchhikers, and a large horn on the front. Furthermore, these Broulders tend to be faster than their other counterparts, able to charge and gore their pray before consumption.

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Yet another merge occurs, the crystals fully replacing the stone shells of the Broulders. Also due to the minerals they consume, the Broulders develop joints, allowing them to bend and move even faster. This lead to their trunks gradually receding, until they became small omnivorous mouths. In addition to developing joints, their vertebrate lengthened, making way for a tailbone, and eventually, a tail. This tail, tipped in rather sharp crystal, is commonly used to attack animals behind the organism, while they gore another creature infront of them.

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>>506850
The Scorpion Braf's and its iron shell grow larger, increasing its size even more, and due to the majority of potential prey starting to group together, the Scorpion Braf begin the growth of a primitive brain stem. As a result, it has started to hunt in small packs. Additionally, it has also grown a third eye, allowing for superior vision.

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The snorkeling broulders of Brouldia begin getting annoyed by the creatures on their back, and as a result, their skorkel extends and calcifies, making way for smaller feeding tubes that allow the broulder to suck up creatures that hop onto its back.

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>>508706
Cytescales develop the beginings of a crude secondary set of jaws, this allows them to hold onto food while their smaller internal jaw set works on mechanically disassembling larger food items.

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Quite a few broulders, feeding on the creatures that land on their back, develop stronger stomachs. Allowing them to digest even the toughest carapace without a problem. As time goes on, a few go onto land and develop stronger legs, for support, they develop suction cup like feet. But as time goes on, these too become feeding tubes. This adaptation has benefited the Sucky Broulder greatly, allowing it to graze and hunt smaller organisms by simply walking, in addition to its other methods.

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>>506382
from left to right:

Bull tripod
gen 2
Size: 8
Region: 5-Global, everywhere but shatturne
Bio: A natural swimmer, and pack oriented creature. Gangs of tripods will form loose social structures to guard territory or bring down larger prey. They are about as intelligent as a crow, and have been shown to utilize simple tools for digging, or play. With no real eyes or olfactory sense located in their skull, the tripod's antenna pull double duty as light and scent sensitive receptors.

Yeti Tripod
gen 3
Size: 9
Region: 1, everywhere but shatturne
Bio: the average yeti tripod will never make it to old age, forming a lifelong bond with their mate, they will often simply stop eating or moving upon a loss of one of the union members. Yeti Tripods have fingernails, and are arguably more intelligent than the Bulls, but do not utilize tools and are not social beyond their mates in a group dynamic. Indeed, they are highly territorial. Yeti tripod's antennas are less sensative to smell, making them poorer trackers, relying more on acoustic cues. Yeti Tripods are warm blooded and very active hunters.


Whooping Tripod
Gen 3
Size: 18
Region: 2 Sujardin
Bio: Whooping tripods are large creatures, but are very slow to grow to their apex size, and slow to breed. They rely entirely on echolocation, their antenna often break off or are damaged as they grow to maturity. Large sacks on their back are filled with air, and struck with an internal hammer muscle, creating a characteristic "Whoop". Whooping tripods are not warm blooded.

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>>486214 Bull Tripods living on the Pisces Braffbergs have developed broad feet to spread their body weight, keeping them from sinking through the mass. They've also found a food source in the Surderals burrowed in the mass. Scent receptors on their antennae and taste buds on their toes help them to locate prey. Once they find a den, they dig through the braffburg until they reach it with hopefully a deral or deral eggs in there. If they do find a deral, they try to yank it out of the den so it just flops helplessly on top of the floating mass. This is dangerous, as the deral is larger than the tripod. This has worked its way into the mating rituals of these tripods. One will present a desired mate with a deral they caught or stole. Just so long as they're giving one, doesn't matter where it comes from.

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And speaking of Derals
>>508286
Some Surderals have moved away from the freefloating brafbergs and into the coral reefs and feed on the vegetation there. They've taken on a coloration that better blends with their new home.

And the Pisces Surderal develops hard, chitinous scales as protection from both the aforementioned tripods, and more often, for in contest over territory with other surderals.

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>>506091
REGION: All / Skyzol

Continuing to grow larger as new minerals are introduced to their diet via the Skyzols, Sprouts achieve a greater development of neural processing. Now able to communicate with one another and their Skyzol, they are still taken unawares when for the first time in an era they encounter a predator. >>507869

Sprouts begin to maintain a vigilant watch on the horizon, gradually migrating away from land masses. They are able to get most of what their Skyzol needs from colonies of bubble algae, meaning veering toward islands and continents happens less frequently.

They like the Bubblecrawlers from Region 4, and often try to coax them along for a ride on the Skyzol by offering one of their nutrient-rich fruits.

Sprouts carefully position their young on new Skyzol, developing a more structured tendril network opposed to haphazard tangles. How this impacts their hosts remains to be seen.

>>506249
Non visual update to Bubblecrawlers. They've long since spread worldwide. However, they have little impact as they rarely ever touch solid ground while alive. They usually spend their entire lives aloft on the bubbles and occasionally Skyzol.

I love the sky biome.

>>507823
>>508360
i see what you did there.
Are you integrating old evequest species?

>>509144
Kind of.

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>>507190

A Parabzolpod species that has adapted to live inside the Landlords find itself able to survive inside the skull and brain of the Panoram Landlords, feeding on small amounts of flesh but mostly on blood. As some of the parasites don't kill their hosts (at least for a very long time), they manage to grow to up to 30 cm inside the skull. The skull is deformed in these individuals as the bloated body of the Panoram Brain Parasite bulge out.

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>>506709
>>506951
>>507869

The Muloctsnejk has further adapted to its life in the water. Its head has gotten more aquadynamic allowing it to more easily rush its prey when ambushing. They can be found all along the coasts of region 1, although they are much more common in the kelp forests. Being the virtually unapposed apex predator of the area they've also increased in size.

The Pouchytails have abandoned their hosts, the broulders, in favour of living on cliffs and mountains next to the coasts of the regions. As a result they've have grown larger. From these places they fly out over the oceans and continue to pray on the Skyzol colonies. Dashing a Sproutling at high speed against the water surface appears to have the same effect as crashing it into the dirt.
>>508973
The pouchytails now communicate with each other through song, sounding a lot like a high-pitched verison of howling of dogs.

In region 3 a few Ferocitails have managed to spread to Nihiloram. They have here adapted to the colder climate by developing heat through the usage of their muscles. To keep this heat from escaping they are now covered in fur. The Hairy Ferocitail is much more passive than its Panoram relative, opting to move in packs of 8 to 12 adults.

On Panoram the Ferocitail have instead grown larger and got tougher. The hollow part of their club has dissapeared, fusing it into a solid piece of bone. These Ferocitails have spread out from the barren lands and can now also be found on the grasslands solitary grazing.

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>>506449

In response to the increased predation from the Scorpion Braff, some Landlords take to the forests. The Bush Landlord lives on the border between forests and grasslands, quick to retreat into the forest. They also grow larger, their back ends lengthening in order for them to keep their balance. Their antennas also become more sensitive; their ability to detect motion and shapes increase.

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>>504641

The Pouchytails that lived on the Broulders of Torray Isles have with time become adapted to the area. Feeding on the crystals of the area has changed their bodies, morphing their plates into a chitinous-crystalline hyrbrid material. Their diets has with this changed. They now feed on their previous hosts, the Gemini Broulders, >>508519 . Using the sharp front points of their head plates as mining-picks they dig into the broulder colony and eat what they mine.

This line is called the Crystallustail

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>>508889
Made easier to edit for new players.


Jawed Cytescales are actually primarily predators of other Broulder type creatures. They will use their mineral infused protrusions as weapons, charging and goring other creatures.

Males are very small compared to females, just a third of their size. Males will form packs to hunt larger creatures.

These creatures are opportunistic cannibals, and not above eating their kin.

They will frequently spend their days honing their bladed horn on rocks to develop a keen edge. Mating challeneges are a particularly fatal time for the Jawed Cytescale, as females will engage in battles to the death for right to mate with the smaller male packs. In turn the males may ignore the victor if she is too weak to subdue the pack, or even worse, if she is too weak to fight, they may consume her.

Once fertalized, the female will coat the male in a spray of eggs, which will hatch later, the new creatures eating their father alive.

Life is beautiful like this.

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>>508973
To decrease predation, some Sprouts develop spiky thorns along their backside meant to fend off Pouchytails. Their main leaves grow spikier as well, with stiff spinose teeth reinforcing them. Sporting two main leaves, some Sprouts are able to survive the fall by spreading their leaves to glide until they're slow enough to break the surface of the water without splattering.

Their pheromones grow more potent in self-defense as well, and they now release an acrid scent when Pouchytails appear, meant to deter them.

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>>506204
>>509262
As Pouchytail predation begins to take a toll on their Sproutling populations, the Skyzol's bowl develops a raised lip, that eventually forms a bowl, and then a fortress-like circular wall, shielding the proto-brain-mass formed of Sproutling tendrils, and also providing a safe place for the Sproutlings to retreat to in order to avoid Pouchytail predation.

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>>509262
thorned sprouts develop two big thorns to protect themselves from baddies coming from above

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>>506621
Some of the Swampgrass have submerged their stalks completely. Instead they let the their false flower float on the surface with the help of two large leaves. The stalk now simply serve as an anchor, fixing the plant to the ground below. The Plant stands 10 to 15 cm above the surface. This line of the Bristlegrass family is called Swamplily.

Being hardier than the Swamplily, this plant has also spread to the coasts of Nihiloram.

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>>509184
Some of the Crystallustails go through further changes due to their diets. Crystal-chitin plates now also cover their legs, and large partly translucent crystals have taken the place of their tails. Through a crystalline-chemical reaction within the tail-crystal is bioluminescent.

>>508519
These Crystallustails now burry into the Gemini Broulder Colonies, creating tunnels throughout them and using their tail-crystals as lanterns to light up the environment around them.

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>>509967
Posted an old, unfinished image by mistake. finished image here.

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>>509200
The Cytescales have developed proper pharyngeal jaws, this allows the creature to catch smaller organisms. as the scurry around its feet.

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>>508848
Some of these broulders develop fine hairs on their backs to detect movement, furthermore, plants such as the Bloomgrass >>506536
begin growing on their back, draining nutrients from the broulder in exchange for luring in more pray. Its a crude symbiosis, but effective, allowing the Bogtrap Broulder to reign supreme in the many ponds and lakes within the wetlands of Brouldia.

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>>510438
Crap, wrong color pallet for the flower,
NEW UPDATED LIMITED EDITION... image of the Bogtrap Broulder

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The Selective Broulder is a strange creature, allowing small herbivores to live in small holes within their shell. In exchange, these creatures must groom their host, eating vegetation off of their bodies. These Broulders, cleaner than their counterparts, seem much more active and vibrant, looking more attractive to their mates. Furthermore, these broulders have developed the ability to memorize their inhabitants and have the tendency to attack any small creatures they do not recognize. Within their shells these broulders have developed a system of feeding tubes, allowing the Selective Broulder to "evict" any inhabitant they find lazy or harmful.

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>>509173
The Brutail Ferocitail grows larger. As it does the Ferocitail's plates expand and grow thicker.

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On the continent of Panoram, many Toothy Broulders faced new challenges as their many organisms developed stronger exoskeletons, and shells making their teeth and digestive systems have a hard time dealing with the consumption of many creatures. This lead to the development of more potent, and larger amounts of stomach acid, strong enough to dissolve even the toughest exoskeleton Panoramians have to offer. So strong infact, that many began leaking it through weaker portions of their body, and dissolving their own teeth. While, they do often leak acid onto the ground below them, they remedied their teeth issue by developing stronger teeth, made out of the same material as their shell.

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>>510714
Due to an increase in the consumption of iron and many other minerals, increased mineralization occurs within the Corrosive Broulders. Their once stone shells have hardened into iron shells, their calcified underbellies have hardened into stone, and their trunks have developed segmented calcified sections. Essentially, "Bone-plates" covering the trunk, still allowing free movement while providing protection. These adaptations have made it possible for the Cauldron Broulder to, for the most part, no longer leak its acid, only dripping it from the opening of its trunk.

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>>509173
The skin of the Serpentsnejk becomes closer to that of the environment, allowing them to easier ambush prey. They develop teeth that make it easier for them inflict wounds on, and improving their "gripping" ability, of prey.

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>>508215
Gemini Broulders are rather unstable genetically, creating a host of new organisms due to tampering from the Genetic Mulu. >>507595
One of these... mutants, is the Brould Tree.
The only animal like trait these organisms retain are their eyes... which now cover most of the tree. These creatures are completely asexual, simply copying their genetic code and implanting it in "Fruit" they produce. These "fruit", comprised of stone and crystal, are in actuality the juvenile form of the tree..which, when it falls to the ground, gradually sinks and absorbs nutrients, sprouting into the beginning of yet another Brould Tree.

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>>510280
Cytescales have developed recessed eyes to protect them from both prey and eachother. Their jaws loose vunerable flesh and can open wider to accomidate larger prey. Numerous small morphological changes occur related to their habbit of sitting on their hind quarters when not in pursuit of food.

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>>508215
Another oddity caused by genetic instability, is the tendency for crystal shard broken off from Gemini Broulders and their relatives to develop calcified tubing of their own, and stone like anchors, allowing them to function in a fashion similar to grass. These "grasses" absorb nutrients from the soil, and develop them into more crystals. Their reproduction is fairly simple, a small piece chips off due to environmental causes, and develops into another blade of "grass", and so on and so forth. Their hardiness, combined with their exponential reproductive abilities, has allowed them to compete, and in many cases overcome, the local grasses of the Torray Isles.

>>511174
Nice job artistically, I think people tend to underestimate Broulders due to my whole, goofy pixel art way of drawing them. Keep up the eldritch-mode mate.

>>511242
Thank you. If there are any other things you want me to give a once over, I will. Just give a general idea of what you are going for. After that they are yours to edit into new and exciting shapes.

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>>508519
>>511100
>>511225
Their calcified tubing commonly colliding, the Gemini Colony's powerful hivemind takes control, redistributing nutrients and minerals to all connected organisms. As time goes on, the destruction of stone and ore and the construction of crystals takes its toll on the isles, frequently terraforming them, occasionally they grow larger, sometimes they grow larger, and even more rarely, separate colonies will connect, making way for a gradual mineralization of the water separating them and an eventual merging.

>>511357
*sometimes they grow smaller
Damned typo.

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>>503385
Braffbergs are a gestalt lifeform, made of brafimass creatures, and algae. In turn many creatures live on, under, and inside them. Their size can rival small landmasses, and they are growing.

A braffberg is made primarily of an endless amount of small creatures that pile on top of each other called braffimats, or in bulk like this, braffimass. Braffimatts are biologically immortal and reproduce by clonal budding. A braffimass communicates amongst its component members with electrical and hormonal/ phenomenal impulses.

Over time, these creatures will begin to specialize into beneficial forms for the colony, distributing nutrients, waste, or turning into communication nodes. Some store fatty deposits of oils or tissue to store nutrients, while others thicken up to become a sort of dermal layer.

Braffbergs are in a very slow, and ponderous way, self aware as a whole. Once a decision is made it can take weeks or months to start or stop.

On locomotion: braffbergs use their long tendrils to slowly paddle water in areas with no currents., or if in shallower areas, they will walk/ drag themselves along the sea floor. Mostly though, they are at the mercy of the currents.

Most braffbergs will eventually find themselves drawn towards one of the faux braffberg continents, adding to its mass. In nutrient poor times, the braffbergs will begin to consume their own mass, shrinking in size until the ecology of the area can support them once more.

A recent addition to the biome are bubble forests collecting above them.

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>>510447
*sleep well little one*
The bogtrap spends precious little energy moving, and sleeps most of the time, even while eating.

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Rolled 2 (1d4)

>>509262
Here we are, the evolution nobody asked for.

REGION: whatever I roll

After enough Sprouts managed to survive the attempted predation by Pouchytails, a few small colonies that were lucky enough to make it to shore have begun their own divergent evolutionary path.

They need to rely on their ability to locomote more than ever due to ground based predators, and so their once childlike waddling on their stumpy stubs has turned into three more capable legs. Their front tendrils can be used for support as well, helping them maintain their balance and interact with their environment.

Their two main branches have angled upward, keeping their leaves clean and free to access more sunlight. The branches begin to stiffen somewhat, requiring less active upkeep from the Sprouts so that they expend less energy to photosynthesize.

Speaking of energy, where they have until recently been hand-fed by their Skyzols, they must now fend for themselves. They cluster in the shadow of Frondly, plunging their tendrils into the soft earth there to absorb minerals and also harvesting some of the Frondly and Braffous fruits for nutrients. Their now active lifestyle requires a lot of calories daily, making them very hungry little fruitivores. Curiously, their neuro-linked tendrils are able to connect to the tendrils of basic (and Highland if I roll a 2) Frondly, allowing them to calm the phytoforms so that they can feed without instigating their defensive instincts.

Their four eyes are well developed enough that they can spot many threats, and some have begun to dart up the nearest tall tree to escape the attention of predators and competition.

Size becomes important as space is no longer limited, and they begin to surge as the generations pass, and they are now over a foot long on average.

>>511655
Oh dear god... they're going to go from cute to plant-like psychic eldritch beasts, I can feel it.

>>511668
I can't control the abominations others create, but that's not on my personal agenda.

>>511461
>tfw the apex predator of the wetlands literally just sleeps all day.

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>>509262

REGION: ALL / Skyzol

While some Sprouts grow larger thorns and intimidating Valkyrie horns like they're staging a low-budget space opera, other Sprouts develop a unique gland beneath their mouths. This gland produces a simple toxin that burns the flesh of Pouchytails, secreting it via their mouths and launching it at their attackers to deter them.

This organ links to some newly developed structures on the back of their heads that differentiate Sprouts in their social pecking order.

Sprout alphas have large petal manes, while beta alphas have tighter, smaller petals. Seasonally, about half of the alpha Sprouts become betas, and a handful of betas will become alphas. The cause of this change is not certain, but it seems to serve a reproductive purpose, as beta Sprouts will all be pollinated by the current alpha. Due to the size of their communities, only one or two alphas exist on a Skyzol at a time.

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>>508484
Some Hawa in coral regions develop wing-like fin structures, helping them better navigate the dangerous shallow waters.

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The skelpers develop scent-glands, allowing themselves to sniff out decaying creatures along the ocean floor, greatly aiding in their development. As a result, they develop stronger legs, capable of letting them stride along the floor faster.

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Some skelpers near kelp forests find so much nutrient-rich detritus that they can't shovel it in to their two mouths fast enough. So they develop pseudopods to help guide it in to their mouth-holes, gorging themselves on dead skrelp strands and climbing among the spiny fronds to avoid predation.

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Quite a few Hawings develop a horn pointing upwards rather than forwards, and develop stronger wings in order to gore pray on their horns via flapping up into them.

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The Long-legged Skelper develops a second set of scent glands behind them, allowing them to further make sure that they're leaving no scraps behind. This in turn, allows them to grow larger, nearly twice the size of an average one nosed skelper.

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As time goes on, a yet another pair of scent glands develop, and on rare occasions, skelpers with 5 or 6 may be seen. Mates tend to choose skelpers with more noses, as they tend to be better scavengers. Processing all of this scent information becomes hard for the simple creatures, so they develop extremely simple brains for sensory information, protected under a chitinous growth, these brains are essential for skelper survival.

>>511981
>>511924
I think the word you want is "receptor," not "gland." Glands would emit smell, not detect.

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>>511996
Following the trend of their predecessors, the Omninosed Skelpers develop more scent receptors, covering the entirety of their body, their mouths moving to their undercarriage to make way for more noses. Living in a world void of light, these Skelpers grow much larger, having a large sensory advantage over other scavengers it is competing with.

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Gaining yet another sensory advantage, the Omninosed Skelpers develop vibration sensitive fibers within their noses, allowing them to sense nearby predators and act accordingly. Due to the sensory overload, their chitinous covering, and their brain, grows larger, capable of handling the excess information.

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>>510819
Cauldron broulders develop spaced eyes to protect against loss. As a broulder ages it's plates seal up their body to prevent acid loss. Broulders in advanced age will become so "sealed" that they gradually loose their mobility, and eventually become frozen in place, as a living statue that will gradually starve to death.

It is not uncommon to see Cauldron graveyards, lands eaten away with acid and rusted husks standing silently, offering grim tidings to their still living kin.

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>>509173
Due to some sproutlings developing gliding leaves the hunting tactic of the Pouchytail has partly changed. The Pouchytail has developed thumbs and more articulated toes on their feet. they now use their feet mid free-fall to rip off whole and parts of the sproutlings leaves. Removing its ability to glide to safety once it's been catched.

The skin that covers the Pouchytail's soft parts (i.e. everything except the pack and head plates) develops a rubbery nitrile-like layer, providing protection to its skin from cuts and spikes. This layer also serves as temporary protection against the effects of the toxin. It still hurts the Pouchytail, acting as a deterrent, but it protects the Pouchytail long enough to get into the water. Where it can wash the toxin of. Older Pouchytails can now be identified by the scarring on their skin from multiple exposures to the toxin.

The Pouchytail comes in two sizes, large and small. They are the same species, being genetically identical and frequently interbreeding. What size a Pouchytail becomes is instead determined by the environment it grows up in. The ones that become large are the Pouchytails that live on mountains and cliffs on edges of the continents, primarily hunting sproutlings out over the seas. The Small ones are the ones that can be found living on Broulders, such as the Selective Broulder >>510576 . These Pouchytails primarily live of regular plants and Broulder weeds, although it's not uncommon for them to also hunt sproutlings.

The Larger ones favour attacking the Sproutlings two on one while the smaller ones instead favour the tactic of as many as passible ganging up on a single sprout.

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The grass on the Torine chain, the northern islands of the Torray Isles, have with time come adapt to the environment. After absorbing microscopic crystal fragments through the soil, the grass has come to incorporate them in their cells. There they've become a part in making the grass' cellular respiration more efficient. It has gone so far that the grass has evolved the ability to produce these micro-crystals by combining absorbed minerals while in places were the soil is low on micro-crystals.

The Azure Grass can primarily be found on the Torine Chain, but has also started crop up on the Curona Peninsula on the southern part of Foltania.

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>>513693
Another strain of the grass, evolving on another isle of the Torine chain, has instead incorporated red micro-crystals that serve the same purpose as the blue ones. The effects on animals of eating either the grasses is currently unknown.
This strain of the grass can currently be found on the south of the Torine chain and to the north of the Torray Isles' largest island.

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>>509173
Encountering very few predators the Ferocitails on Nihiloram flourish. They have increased in size, now ranging from 80 to 120 cm.

Large herds of the hairy ferocitails can now be seen walking the land, using each other's body heat and fur-isolation to protect themselves against the colder winds (during winters? do we have seasons?).

Some of the Feroctails have developed horns. These are primarily not used for defence against predation. Instead they're used during the mating competitions, where males fight males and neutrus against neutrus for the right to mate with the females. The Ferocitails of Nihiloram are a special case amongst the Tail species where a third sex has developed. Both the neutrus and male mate with the female, the increased genetical diversity of the offspring making for a stronger individual.

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>>513796
>Third Sex
...You're going to turn them into Futa Monstergirls, aren't you
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The Cryst Grass of the Torrian Isles has developed a more effficient way of multiplying, other than hoping that a piece of their stalk chips off, now they grow an extremely fragile small crystal bulb at the top of their stalks. This bulb, when brushed up against by anything, be it a stone, powerful wind, or an organism, makes it burst. Spreading micro-crystals to nearby soil.

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>>507556
The Mulocroc has developed nostrils, allowing it to smell where the grass is the freshest. At the same time they've also developed a long tongue. The Mulocroc wraps its tongue around the grass allowing it to eat more in a single bite time than before.

Due to The Mulocroc's versatility, plates isolating it and grass being everywhere, they can now be found on the grass plains of Ralia Morove, Jobani and Brouldia.

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The Cryst Grass of the Torrian Isles, relying on their bulbs bursting, have developed a form of bio-luminescence. Their bulbs glow with a faint light, enticing organisms to draw near and hopefully, break them.

>>513821
Nope. The Neutrus is basically identical to the males. The only difference is that they don't produce "sperm", instead producing another kind of gamete. The Neutrus is not really needed for the species to reproduce, but the additional fertilisation from it gives healthier offspring.

Male - Female : Offspring
Neutrus - Female: Nothing
Male - Neutrus : Nothing (basically gay sex, if it was to occur)
Male - female and then Neutrus - female : Extra healthy offspring.

>>513821
there are several varieties of extra-binary castes in the animal world, serving similar social and reproductive purposes. a worthwhile addition that may start cropping up elsewhere...

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>>510706
The plates of the Ferocitails of Panoram continue spreading, now covering most of the animals body in a hard, and in some places spring-steel like, natural armor.

Due to repeated conflicts between broulder, such as >>512279 the cauldron broulde, after the broulders having entered ferocitails' grazing territory, a division of the continent of Panoram has occured where the ferocitails dominate the central grass plains of the continent around the barren lands and the Broulders dominate the peripherals.

Its is a terrifying sight to behold these creatures fighting as the two equal-sized "giants" collide into each other. The Broulder releasing its acid, burning through crevices of the Ferocitails Plating, burning it from the inside. And the Ferocitail with it's charging head-butts and club-smashes denting the metal plating and crushing the rock protection of the Broulder, destroying its internal organs.

>>513927
So many grammatical errors and repeated words. Too tired to type properly.

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>>510881
The Serpentsnejk has further adapted to its ambush-based hunting style, developing long membranes behind its crown that mimic kelp. This allows the Serpentsnejk to more easily blend into the environment of the kelp forest. The animal has also spread to the Kelp Forests of Sujardin.

(Note to self: Primarily feeds on - Feesh. Secondarily feeds on - Kelp & other vegitation. Diet - "Herbivore")

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>>506572
Got a small load of organisms for this island.
The slow moving Onolk Island Broulder finds a niche as an ambush predator. Their bodies are flat and lie close to the ground. The upper surface of their shell bear resemblance to the copper-rich stone of the island. The specimen depicted lacks the usual plant growth to display this trait.
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Bristlegrass on the island finds the male and female parts of the plant swapping location. Pollen is formed on the structure on top. They release it whenever disturbed by a strong breeze or passing animal. Where the leaves segment the plant, the seed-forming structures can be found.Once the seeds ripen, the structures pop open, releasing a seed coating in a wispy fibrous coating, allowing the wind to carry them for short distances across the island. The can also catch on animals, which help to spread them as well.
Bristlegrass are by far the most common plant on Onolk.
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And last for now, Trident Shellbraf. No changes, same generation. There are just some that migrate to the island once a year to lay eggs.

I'll say that there is a low population of trees scattered across the island. I just need a bit to think of what to do with them first.

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>>510881
Some Serpentsnejks have adapted to a life amongst the coral reefs, their crowns and colours now mimicking corals. With the change of environment their diet has also changed. These serpentsnejks are now capable of feeding on animal-based life after having started to prey on >>508958
Reef Derals, amongst others, and only those with the hardiest stomachs surviving.

(NtS: Omnivore)

>>513927
>>513941

https://youtu.be/MsuH1msEkvM?t=36

its ok. Im too tired to edit the broulder and ferocitail faces onto these people for this clip.

>>514112
Kek

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>>504396
Gen 3.
The egg mulu develop small respiratory chambers that allow them to diffuse oxygen into their new circulatory systems. Spiracles appear on their backs, allowing air to circulate in and out of these organs.
Their oxygen intake allows them to grow larger, reaching 10-12 cm. It also allows them to migrate away from the ocean shores, populating moist areas inland.

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>>514166
Gen 4.
To better camouflage their new size, the egg mulu develop a darker green coloration. Their circulation also enables them to carry their toxins more easily throughout their bodies, now allowing them to concentrate enough toxins in their stingers to kill prey much larger than them.

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>>514176
Gen 5.
Stronger tendrils with hard drills allow these egg mulu to penetrate even strong-shelled foes.

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Many Skelpers adapt a low energy lifestyle, attaching themselves to the seafloor, they used their acute senses to know whenever something edible is passing by them. Allowing them to gently sway towards it and consume it.
Gradually, they developed more mouths on their unoccupied legs, allowing them to more easily consume something towards the bottom of them, which is commonplace for a bottom feeder. Reproduction became... rather strange, their stationary lifestyles forcing them to adapt a new method of reproduction. Males of the species, "sneeze" out sperm from their many noses, allowing it to be carried by the currents, while females, smelling the sperm long before it pasts by them, sway towards it and snort it, fertilizing their eggs internally.

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>>514211
Gen 6. Brave egg mulu who enter crystal ecosystems use the minerals from their mineral-rich prey to form a shell that, while heavy and limiting of their mobility, provides slightly better protection and vastly better camouflage.

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>>508286
For a long time, Leviathan Surdurals have had little to inhibit their growth. Plenty of space, and plenty of food. What has restricted their size was respiration. They could not absorb enough oxygen through their skin as normal. Along the inner surface of their necks, thin flaps of skin filled to the brim with capillaries have formed. These primitive gills greatly improved the respiration of these Durals.
The hump on their back has also extended into a full fin, improving stability while swimming.

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>>500456
Gen 1
The brafhemoth's fins split in two, allowing them to overlap them to make much quicker turns in the water.

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>>506449

In the Panoramian Landlords, their oxygen uptake is a big factor in their size maximum. In the Landlords of Panoram, the alien lungs are located one on each side of the Landlord's torso with their heart centered above the stomach (not pictured). Landlords with better oxygen uptake and larger lungs and heart live longer and reach a bigger size, improving their survival and chance for reproduction. They grow larger, with a thicker and more resilient exoskeleton and a better internal notochord.

>>514946
the ladies love a landlord with a good notochord.

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Due to a mutation some Grabrafs now have a dubble set of arms. They've also developed nostrils on their beaks, giving them an easier time to orient themselves. Some of these grabraf have due to drifting on plants in a storm ended up on Sujardin. In sujardin's forests they've flurrished due to a lack of predation and their furr offering a perfect protection against the cold of the continent's winters.

>>515200
flourished*

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Time to expand the vegetation of Foltania!

>>506899

The seeds of the Swamptree that end up on dry land tend to die, but some survive despite the conditions not being optimal for their survival. Among these survivors is a species of Swamptree called the Dwarf Swamptree. They are tiny compared to their swampy cousins but manage to spread across Foltania from edges of the Trifolt Delta with help from the currents, animals and others.

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>>515283

From these dwarfs comes a short series of mutations that first considerably shortens the length of the trunk to a few decimeters at most. The plant survives by putting more energy into the crown and its structure. The braffious leaves grow along several tough branches, like before, but in this mutation the branches in the Dwarf Swamptree grow longer and harder as more nutrition can go into making them stronger as the trunk can't utilize it. This allows for a greater leaf density, which aids in the newly-named Braffbush's quest for photosynthesis.

Another minor change is in the fruits, The only part of the plant that still produces some bioluminescence. In the Braffbush they become more elongated, similiar to cucumbers but smaller. The fruit is divided in two layers; the meat and the center. The meat is the outmost layer; succulent and sweet. It is seperated from the center by a tough bark-like material, the same kind that suspends the fruit from the trees. Inside the center is the spine along which the seeds are connected. The fruit meat in here is rubbery and not very tasty; it provides the seeds with vital nutrients when the ripe fruit is disconnected from the tree.

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>>511839
REGION: 3

In the expansive coral reefs north of Panoram, some Hawa experience the growth of a light sensitive spot formed when several of their electro-sensory receptors fuse together just beneath their skin. This basic eye gives them an additional edge over their kin when it comes to hunting and avoiding being hunted.

Their bodies develop further as well as they get bigger, gaining stronger musculature and the beginning of a cartilaginous structure around their organs.

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>>513693

Some of the Azure Grass on the plains of the Curona Peninsula, Foltania, take advantage of the lack of larger plants, growing to the size of short trees.

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>>506044
MEANWHILE, IN FOLTANIA

In the lush wetlands, the soft soil and abundant detritus produced by the ecosystem encourages the growth of the tunnelbraf. Now almost doubled in size, their body continues to lengthen, sporting more pseudopods along their segments to push them through the dirt.

They emerge into the water above less frequently, often only pushing their head up from the surface of the ground when they sense vibrations that might be easy prey. Their eyes have evolved a pair of protective covering films that retract from either side, keeping their sensory organs free of debris. The white lid is semi-translucent allowing them to peer through murky, muddy waters, while the darker lid is thick and opaque to protect them from being blinded by running into things underground.

Their burrowing speed is unparalleled with so many appendages pushing them forward, and they snake through the soil to digest whatever they may find. Areas where they nest are often particularly green as their waste feeds the environment around them.

Also, they have a more advanced mouth with more teeth to discourage turning them into monstergirls. Unless that's your thing, I guess.

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>>515200
Some Grabrafs on Sujardin develop orggans for sight. This gives them the advantage over their brethren when it comes to being able to orient themselves amongst the branches.

dudes this shit is beautiful, any tips on descriptions for creatures?

>>515807

Just do it™

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>>515589
Brafs now have a rad pair of whiskers to sense vibrations better and grab stuff

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>>506028
Growing much more muscular, the brafs of Sujardin develop stockier bodies with more powerful front limbs. They push their way through their tunnels to gnaw on roots from below, their jaws growing tougher to get to the nutritious inner tissue of the braffious forests from the inside out. Their vestigial fins have given way to short bristle-like fur, helping insulate them better against cold weather, and some have begun to hibernate.

In preparation for the wintry season, they gorge themselves for a week straight before digging a fresh burrow and caving the entrance in behind them. This ensures they will not fall victim to predators while they are hibernating, their own body heat filling the space and sealing it until spring comes again.

Their front whiskers are particularly useful for cleaning themselves, and they spend lots of time each day running their forelimbs over their bristles to remove all the dirt and debris that accumulates as they run through their underground networks.

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>>513846
Quite a few Glo-grass, sturdier now that they no longer rely on breaking, develop into tall tree-like structures, growing out of a calcified base, they're much stronger than their counterparts, up to their glowing tip. As a result, they begin producing many small fruit-like crystal bulbs, they grow on thin fragile stalks. As a result, the trees no longer rely on outside factors to reproduce. As when the bulbs grow to a certain weight they fall, shattering on the ground below and spreading crystal shards.

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On the Volcanic Isle of Denui, the Toothy Broulder trudges on, surviving on the scarce vegetation and inhabitants living amongst them. As time goes on, they incorporate Obsidian into their shells, giving them a slight increase in heat resistance, they also develop a vent in the top of their shell, which consistently releases pent-up heat to prevent them from boiling internally.

>>516482
The Obsidian Broulder gradually develops a way to utilize its pent up heat, developing a "Smoke Chamber" so to speak. These new Geyser Broulders, filled with pressurized smoke, occasionally release it at organisms above them, blasting the creature with super heated smoke, which is a death sentence for most organisms, and a traumatic experience for hardier ones. This form of hunting is most commonly used on the crag climbing Pouchytails, and on rare occasions, Skyzol passing overhead.

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>>516571
Forgot the picture, damnit.

>>515821
Um... I guess the only option is to follow the surviving lineages through the last two threads. I'd give more creatures some attention if I knew about them.
Next thread, we really should have basic descriptions of what we're starting with.

different ID than usual. Posting from a friend's house.

--World Event: It's a Big World--

Throughout the Early Magnarovic Era, the magnitude and diversity of life on Essari has exploded like never before in history. This is the result of an abundance of climates and biomes, with some that have developed very unique habitats found exclusively in the isolated island of the world. And life continues to diversify, and become more advanced, so does the biomass of the world grow.

Here's the tricky thing about biomasses for worlds of Essari, eventually there is a cap where life hits maximum biological diversity. And as the world transitions in the Mid Magnarovic Era, we will see it hit that cap. But just how far can life stretch over the world of Essari?

--Impact to Organisms--
> There will now be a max limit to how many organisms can exist on the planet at one time.
> When this cap is reached the oldest or most unfit organisms for the world will vanish.
> Base line organisms will not effected by this...for now.
> You guys will be rolling a 1d6 to determine
what the organism cap will be.
> One roll to a person please

1 = Max Organisms is Capped at 200
2 = Max Organisms is Capped at 220
3 = Max Organisms is Capped at 250
4 = Max Organisms is Capped at 280
5 = Max Organisms is Capped at 300
6 = No Limit to Organisms

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>517187
hoping for 250ish, any more than that is just too much for any one Librarian. It was good enough for two generations of Pokemon, it's good enough for us.

>>517187
Lets do this

Rolled 2 (1d6)

Hope its big enough for more bro-ulders
Also, disregard last post

>>516941
there should be descriptions in the imgur album, unless Libby didn't get to everything. You can always ask in the Discord as well, people would be more than happy to help catch you up or enlighten you :)

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>517187

Rolled 3 (1d6)

Rolled 5 (1d6)

>>517187

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>517187

>>517939

You need to put it in the options field.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>517187
>>517946
thanks pal

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>517187

Rolled 4 (1d6)

>>517187

Rolled 1 (1d6)

Might as well.

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>517187

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>>506111
Gen 1
Some hawa develop a second filament from the top and bottom of their bodies. This stabilizes and extends their control over horizontal movement.

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>>520021
Gen 2
These hawa, known now as hawi, grow sturdier and stronger filaments now comparable to fins, enabling faster movement, especially at higher pressures.
The hawi also express a random yet inconsequential mutation changing the structure of the pigment in the filaments.

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--World Setting-- (Holy crap, I've been away for so long, sorry about the consistent delays)

Essari now enters into the Mid Magnarovic Era, as life begins to diversify and regionalize around the world. More and more organisms begin to appear, with each new organisms becoming more specialized, complex, and larger than ever. For many organisms, the advent of sturdy exoskeletons, and stronger endoskeletons has opened the doors for organisms to grow and not only thrive in their ecosystems, but warp the very land around them in some cases. For others, diversification has been derived from the abundance of new minerals and resources that a great deal of organisms quickly adopted.

Region 1: The climate of this region hasn't changed much, but the lands have become more colorful and lush with life as Bloomgrass >>506536 and Bristlegrass >>506543 sweep over the lands. Life in all shapes and sizes has found nearly all the landmasses to comfortable areas to grow and prosper in. More recently, Brouldia and Jobani have become the target of hurricane systems that form and barrage the landmass during the wetter times of year. These storms frequently flood forests and grasslands, and wash away large swaths of life, only for organisms to immediately reclaim the briefly unoccupied land. These storms also impact the Styrax Braffberg Colony and the southern ridge of the Gemini Braffberg Colony, tearing apart younger growths of the colony, which become nutrients for the marine organisms beneath. The Shatturne Isles have been inhabited by a few hardy organisms over the years, and life isn't getting any easy with a recent increase in volcanic activity and a plunge in the isles now becoming another region impacted by snowfall and cooler weather.

Region 2: Sujardin has become a paradise for life that learned to thrive in both temperate and semi-tropical biomes. Thanks to its geographic position, the landmass experience regular and seasonal weather patterns and in turn organisms have become adapted to dealing with the seasonal weather. Here, Quad Grabrafs >>515613 swing through the trees and Frondlys >>507959 of Sujardin while Ground Sprouts >>511655 and Whooping Tripods roam the lower canopies in their daily search for food. Marine life has exploded in this region, as various Sunderal >>508286 >>514359 descendants have taken to life along the coasts and among the Braffberg colonies, while Hawa and Skelper have adopted the lower niches of these new biomes. The Braffberg Colonies Pisces and Leviathan continue to slowly grow and drift along the still ocean surface, as they sift the open ocean for food. The Denui Island has slowly become its own unique environment as Geyser Broulders >>516579 begin to dominate the lonely volcanic island as its top organism. These Broulders begin to gradually fill the air around this island with a thin layer of soot that makes life for complex plants and airborne organisms very difficult.

Region 3 and 4 in second post.

Region 3: The continent of Panoram has become a paradise for all walks of life. This is because of the consistently wet and tropical climate, and its expansive land that let's life stretch out and evolve however it chooses. Panoramian Landlord Tripods >>514946, Armored Ferocitails >>513927, and the vitriolic Cauldron Broulders >>512279 are among many of the giants that roam Panoram. Even plant life has diversified here, as the old Braffious Tree and Bristlegrass have evolved to maximized their success in every environment it encounters. >>506792 >>509807 In the tropical oceans around Panoram, life has flourished as Serpentsnejks, >>513998 Skelper, >>512081 Hawhorns, >>511884 Dolpfeesh, and many more marine organisms thrive in the expansive reefs that have built continuously onto one another over millions of years. While coral itself hasn't evolved beyond its polyp-like form, it has taken on a plethora of shapes and structures that now house much of the tropical marine organisms of the world. While Nihiloram has not experienced an explosion of life, like Panoram, life has done well here, but the geography has recently changed. The inland regions of Nihiloram have recently become filled with more and more metallic and clay substrate that has killed off most plant life and made life for animals difficult. The onset of this geographic change is unclear, and its not yet known how life will adapt to this change if at all.

Region 4: Foltania has become far more humid over recent time, with the wetlands of the Trifolt Delta creeping further inland. With this expansion of wetland in the west and swampy rainforests in the east has resulted in an influx of oxygen production over the Foltania mainland. This has caused the previously uneventful storm systems of Foltania to become supercharged and lethal, with lightning strikes have the potential to cause flash fires that engulfs several acres of forest in an instant. Life has become most diverse in the wetlands with Braffious Swamptrees >>506899 now spreading over the continent from Panoram, and Foltanian Landlords >>506466
roaming the swamps of the continent among the many other smaller organisms of the landmass. It is the small chain, known as the Torray Isles though where life in this region has become the most bizarre and unique. Many organisms have taken to the abundance of crystals in the island chain, evolving into strange and wonderful creatures like the Cytescale, >>511174 the Brould Tree, >>511100 Lantern Crystallustails, >>510209 varieties of crystalline covered grasses, and many more unique oddities. Most interesting is the the southernmost island in the Torray Isles, now called Onolk Island. It is here where we see the first examples of island gigantism, with examples like the Onolk Landlord, >>506572 and the Onolk Island Broulder >>513986 that are found exclusively on this small island.

--Impact to Organisms--
> Plant Organisms can now become as large as the size 19 increment stated in this post. >>506111
> Animal Organisms can now become as large as the size 14 increment stated in my OP post.
> The Max Organisms that can live at one time on Essari is now set at 220, with each Region being restricted to certain number of organisms too. R1: 40 R2: 45 R3: 50 R4: 45 Global: 40
> After some long thought on the matter, I've decided that Coralyps will no longer need to be evolved further. If someone wishes to evolve/modify the coral they may do so, but do ask before you do it.

I'm sorry about being inactive as of late, but I will be attempting to release the Phylogeny Chart tomorrow, and also try to update the Imgur Gallery with all the organisms from the Triumphic Era.

Thank you for patience, and THANK YOU for making such an awesome world so far.

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>>520025
Gen 3.
More power being needed to effectively navigate in high pressure environments, the hawi begin to grow significantly longer as genes that once haulted their growth after a certain age are switched off. They now continue to grow longer throughout their lifespans, and the number of stripes on their fins can be used to assess their age. Eventually, their length may starve them, as their size will demand more energy than they can find.
They currently reside within the deeper regions below and near the Styrax braffiberg colony, feeding on detritus as usual in the most extreme of depths where they meet few competitors.

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>>511174
>>509184
I drew this.
Crystallustails are so small compared to these dudes.

>>520622

That is too good, my main man. Are you gonna draw some more?

>>520631
Maybe ?
Have you some ideas ?

>>520652

Well, I am a tripod enthusiast. Perhaps an image of a herd of Landlords near the water being ambushed by a Braff scorpion, dragging an unfortunate individual down into the murky depths.

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The Skelpers of the kelp forests of Sujardin have taken to hiding from predators by occasionally burying themselves in the sand. They have developed tentacles beneath their eyes, allowing them to more easily be on the lookout. These skelpers are called skelperidos.

In the kelp forests the Skelperidos feet on dead plants and animals, often eating what the toothed Serpentsnejks >>513982 have left behind.

>>520730

>They have developed tentacles beneath their eyes

I think those are mouths.

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>>520730
The Skelperido's leg stumps have become elongated tentacles. With these tentacles they now run around on the sea floor, hiding behind kelp and peering out from behind the cover.

>>520732
well, shit. I'm retarded

>>520652 I'd really like to see one of these dudes napping underwater while sucking up some sort of pray, a tripod or muloctail or something.
>>511461

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>>520735
Retcon: During the second generation the skelperidos had developed small eyes behind the mouths that could not be seen on the image.

As the Skelperidos have become taller and more adept at looking out for danger, the two mouths have moved to the underside of the creature. The eyes have instead become more developed, turning into two large crystal-ball-looking oval spheres. Within these spheres are also housed the beginnings of two central nervous-systems. These bunches of nerves, however are not entirely connected giving the creature a partly split mind.

Oh, and they are also darker because it looks cooler.

>>520652
I'd love to see a Cauldron Broulder >>512279 and a Brutail Ferocitail >>513927 beating the living snot out of each other.

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>>520671
>>520752
>>520767
Wowowo you want to start a draw thread or what ?

>>520798
Anyway I think I'll do all these requests ^^

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>>515613
The Quadruped Grabrafs of Sujardin become the first creatures to develop a "written language". Their script consisting of the letters H, O, T, I. To call actually this a written language, however would probably be a lie, as becomes obvious from the text below.

With the development of letters a strange social interaction/activity has started amongst the Grabrafs. One of the oldest Grabrafs starts started scribbling letters on loose pieces of bark. While the elder does this all, and I mean all, Grabrafs of the forests Hoots and Toots over what "letter" should be written next, or if a new word should start. This might not seem as much of an issue seeing as the only "words" they know and instinctively write are "hooti" and "tooti". Frequent "arguments" between different Grabrafs over what should be written next, or what the Grabraf over 3 km away tooted, has caused a genetically ingrained social game to evolve. The game could be called "Branches, Grabby, Fruit," if one were to use terms they would definitely not understand.

Branches, Grabby, Fruit is used to solve most disagreements among the social animals. Were grabby beats fruit, fruit beats branches, and branches beats grabby.

Once a consensus is reached the decided on letter is scratched in by the elder.

Since Grabrafs are short lived, not being very intelligent and all, the elder always dies before finishing whatever it is the Grabrafs are trying to "write". Once the elder dies another old Grabraf starts scratching bark pieces, but seeing as this is done instinctively the whole thing is started again from the beginning. At this rate it will take several millenia before this process finishes, if it ever does.

The keen reader might from this text somehow make the assumptions that the Grabrafs are becoming more intelligent, or that they might be taking the first steps towards sentience, by making these assumptions you would be wrong, however.

The Quadruped Grabraf's intelligence could at best be compared with that of a retarded Koala. To give an example, if a Grabraf were to be caught and put in a zoo it would be unable to identify the fruit it was given as food, unless still hung attached to the tree. The Grabraf would there after proceed to starve to death because of its own stupidity. If the Grabraf were to be put on a scale of intelligence for the animals of Essari it would most likely end up somewhere behind the Skelperido >>520761 , a noodle-thing.

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In the wetlands of the Trifolt Delta and Panoram, the Braffious Swamptree develops a new way of combatting storms. Growing branches to aid in stability greatly increases their survival rates. As a result, after many seasons of floods bringing in fresh nutrients, older trees can grow up to 9 meters tall, keeping their fruit out of reach from many herbivores.

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>>520761
The Skelperido develops four more tentacles that are permanently help above its main body. From these tentacles hangs faux kelp. This totally increases the Skelperido's skill in stealth by x100.

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The Broulders, formally thriving in the wetlands of the Trifolt Delta, gradually get burdened by the unreachable fruit of the >>520964 as scavengers, much faster than themselves usually get the fruit after it falls. As a result, they develop longer more prehensile trunks, capable of deftly reaching up the trees and eating the fruit before it falls. Without competition, they once again thrive growing to a larger size than they previously were.

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Other Broulders, rather than developing a longer trunk, develop the tendency to simply attempt to reach for the fruit, as time goes on this turns into habitually standing on their hindlegs to gather fruit from the branches of the tree. Eventually, their body adapts to this different lifestyle, their skeletal structure changing somewhat to aid in standing. Additionally, their hind-legs grow stronger, allowing them to stand up for longer periods of time. The most notable change to their skeletal structure is the development of a tailbone, and an eventual tail, to aid in balance. These Broulders thrive among their brethren, much like their Long Snouted counterparts, and grow larger, up to 4.5 M.

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As Pouchytails become smarter in their hunting habits, Skyzols become more protective of their Sproutling symbionts, their "fortress" growth closing into a dome, with a narrow slot - just tall enough for a fully-grown Sproutling to fit into - on each side.

The oldest Skyzols continue growing, easily becoming titans among their own kind, still supported by the same lifestyle they have held for tens of thousands of years: floating on the winds in response to the impulses of their Sproutling passengers, they sing back and feed on their freely-offered berries, heavily-armored and confident in their protection against any possible threat.

Due to the impulses of the ever-curioust Sproutlings, the Skyzol start to gather more and more Bubble Algae, transferring them gently to their shell and continuing on their ponderous, aimless journey.

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Tampering from the Genetic Mulu >>507595
Strikes again, causing a ponderous mutation similar to that of the Gemini Broulder >>508215
Occasionally, Brouldish Swampclimbers >>521080
are born as conjoined twins, one head (trunk included) inhabiting their tail and one head functioning as normal in its usual position. These heads are completely different behaviorally speaking. The tail-head, tending not to see a piece of fruit in its entire life, is aggressive, attacking any organism low enough for it to attack. On larger prey, it tends to only rip off a leg due to its odd position. The higher head however, above most organisms and concerned only with the plentiful fruit growing above it, tends to be passive. Ignoring other creatures and contentedly consuming fruit. As a result, most higher heads lead a vegan lifestyle. Commonly not eating any meat in their life.
These polar-opposites keep the Two Faced Broulder rather balanced nutritionally, and make the organism a rather excellent omnivore.

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>>516579
As time goes on, and Denui becomes less and less populated, Geyser Broulders grow desperate for food and try many methods, varying from cannibalism, to eating rocks. Fortunately for them, rock-eating prevailed as a new method of gaining some form of sustenance. The igneous stones of Denui are rather toxic and hostile chemically, full of phosphorous, magnesium, and other highly reactive chemicals. To purge these toxins, they simply spout them out as usual. More often than not, when erupted out of their pressurized chambers, the chemicals react, changing their normally smoky emission into one of flame instead.

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>>520973
The tentacles and the faux kelp of some of the Skelperidos with time fuses together completely obscuring the main body.
These skelperidos also develop a third head-orb, hence the new name Skelpertrio. The new head becomes the dominant one like in a computer-like slave/master relationship. Its mind is no longer as split as previously. It is possible for the central head to use some of the thought-power of the other two.

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Over the years, the Gemini Broulder Colonies develop socially, information being passed through the tubing interconnecting all Gemini Broulder organisms. This leads to a rather... self-aware hivemind forming. Loud clanging, cracking, and smashing can be heard as the colony constantly rearranges itself to repair injured portions, and spread further. As time goes on, rather than combatting >>509967 Crystallustails, they formed a fair symbiosis with them. Caverns within the Colonies are formed, full of crystals, that the smaller organisms are naturally attracted to, regrowth here is much faster in here than the rest of the Colony, containing the Crystaltail in these makeshift homes. When threatened however, growth ceases, signalling that something is endangering the colony. Over time, Crystallustails learn the correlation and swarm attackers by the 1000's the survivors crawling back inside to their comfortable cavern life afterwards.

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>>520141
Gen 4.
Long, sensitive extensions appear on the lateral filament, allowing them to detect minute vibrations and avoid contact with larger scavengers.

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>>521452
Gen 5
Stiff structures form along the inside of the body to allow them to protect their organs and retain their shape under high pressures as they begin to populate even deeper parts of the ocean.

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>>521534
Gen 6.
The front sensors migrate to the front and develop extra branches closer to the base, reducing interference from the beating of the creature's own fin.
They also stop producing yellow pigment due to the loss of necessity since little to no light reaches the depths they currently populate.

I wish I found this quest earlier in it's life. I'm still probably going to join it, but it feels weird jumping in part-way through.

>>521842
Nah man, by all means join in!

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>>521842
COM'IN BRO !

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>>520964

In response to heavy herbivorial activity due to these suckers, >>521005 >>521080, the Foltanian linege of Braffious Swamptrees develop a couple of ways to deal with them.

One group of trees face a mutation in the shell that covers their fruit. Instead of the familiar round shape of the Braffifruit, these fruits are covered in spikes formed from the rough material that encapsulate the fruit meat inside. Eating the fruit without removing the skin can rip up the mouth of Foltanian Landlords and the snoutmouth of Broulders.